The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective. Essays Presented in Honor of Professor Robert W. Thomson on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday

Part I: Until the Tenth Century
Sergio La Porta: Introduction to Part I

Section I: Jewish and Iranian Currents in the Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition
Gabriele Boccaccini: The Origin and Legacy of the Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition
Michael E. Stone: Jewish Apocalyptic Literature in the Armenian Tradition
James R. Russell: The Epic of Sasun: Armenian Apocalypse

Section II: Biblical and Parabiblical Traditions
S. Peter Cowe: The Reception of the Book of Daniel in Late Ancient and Medieval Armenian Society
Lorenzo DiTommaso: The Armenian Seventh Vision of Daniel and the Historical Apocalyptica of Late Antiquity
Annette Yoshiko Reed: Enoch in Armenian Apocrypha
Stephen H. Rapp, Jr.: The Georgian Nimrod
Theo Maarten van Lint: Geometry and Contemplation: The Architecture of Vardan Anec‘i’s Vision of the Throne-Chariot. Theosis and the Art of Memory in Armenia
Robert W. Thomson: The Reception of the Biblical Book of Revelation in Armenia
Jean-Marc Rosenstiehl: Armenian Witnesses of Three Eschatological Motifs

Section III: The Visions of Sts. Grigor Lusaworič‘ and Sahak Part‘ew
Robert W. Thomson: The Vision of Saint Gregory and Its Interpretations
Sergio La Porta: The Vision of St. Grigor Lusaworič‘ and the Role of Apocalyptic in the Conversion of Armenia
Gohar Muradyan: The Vision of St. Sahak in the History of Łazar P‘arpec‘i
Zaza Aleksidze: The Visions of Grigor and Sahak Part‘ew: Old Georgian Versions and Their Reflection in Georgian Sources

Section IV: Apocalypse and the Rise of Islam
Anders Hultgård: Medieval Armenian Apocalypticism in Context
Aram Topchyan: The Armenian Version of the Apocalypse of Ps.-Methodius
Yuri Stoyanov: Apocalypticizing Warfare: From Political Theology to Imperial Eschatology in Seventh- to Early Eighth-Century Byzantium

Section V: Reflection on the Mysticism of Grigor Narekac‘i
Hrachya Tamrazyan: The Visions of Grigor Narekac‘i

Part II: Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Kevork B. Bardakjian: Introduction to Part II

Section I: Medieval Reception of Apocalyptic Narratives
Zaroui Pogossian: The Last Emperor or the Last Armenian King? Some Considerations on Armenian Apocalyptic Literature from the Cilician Period
Sergio La Porta: Vardan Aygekc‘i’s Counsel and the Medieval Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition
Stephen J. Shoemaker: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Armenian Dormition Narratives

Section II: The Apocalypse in Art
Christina Maranci: Sundials and Medieval Armenian Architecture
Edda Vardanyan: Voir Dieu : l’iconographie arménienne de la Vision du Trône d’Ezéchiel dans le contexte de l’art de l’Orient chrétien
Sylvie L. Merian: Illuminating the Apocalypse in Seventeenth-Century Armenian Manuscripts: The Transition from Printed Book to Manuscript
Renana Bartal: “And Behold A Door was Opened in Heaven”: Vision and Visual Strategies in Three Vernacular Apocalypses from Fourteenth-Century England

Section III: Comparative Perspectivesa
Timothy Pettipiece: Burn the World Down: Manichaean Apocalyptic in Comparative Perspective
Witold Witakowski: Syriac Apocalyptic Literature
Pierluigi Piovanelli: ‘Orthodox’ Faith and Political Legitimization of a ‘Solomonic’ Dynasty of Rulers in the Ethiopic Kebra Nagast
Anissava Miltenova: Historical Apocalypses in Medieval Bulgarian Literature (10th–14th Centuries)
Lorenzo DiTommaso: Armenian Apocalyptica and Medieval Apocalypticism: Some Reflections